Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role of 1940 politico, John Lewis first dusted off Indiana's Paul Vories McNutt, whom nobody had considered a likely bidder for C. I. O. support. To a gallery of undesirables which already included John Nance ("Evil Old Man") Garner, Boss Lewis also added Cordell Hull, with unkind references to his trade agreements...
...pockets $900 a week. Tall, well-proportioned and active-looking, Elmer Davis wears grey or pepper-&-salt suits to match his grey hair, looks very un-Elmer-like except for his invariable little black bow ties. Many consider him a dead ringer for handsome Hoosier Paul V. McNutt, but Elmer Davis, turning 50 last week, saw another resemblance. Said he: "Now people think I look more like Cordell Hull...
President Roosevelt." Said Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, at Raleigh, N. C.: "The plain people of today adore Franklin Roosevelt." Discordant notes: ex-Treasury Under Secretary John W. Hanes, in Dallas: "I love and admire, as do you . . . John Nance Garner." Senator Burton K. Wheeler, in Denver: "I've been asked to run. Haven't made up my mind...
...work of administering his Federal Security Administration last week took Paul Vories McNutt into New Jersey, for a luncheon at Newark with bankers, corporation officers, and politicos of both parties. The tall "Orchid Man" said the visit had no political significance, but "we weren't playing tiddlywinks...